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if the members with we could kind of nice it didn't mean european wages with one but after another year of skeptics who wanted danger from the start they have become the unlikely hero as if this tale just who the hell do you think you people are you are very very dangerous people indeed your obsession with creating this euro state means that you're happy to destroy democracy you appear to be happy for millions and millions of people to be unemployed and to be poor untold millions must suffer so that your euro dream could continue if you rob people of their identity if you rob them of their democracy but all they are left with is nationalism and violence countries are now waking up to the reality of the nightmare that chap says. the euro is a political present for countries such as greece and spain and they need to be liberated from their prison recreate their own currencies have devaluation make their exports cheaper make it easier for tourists to visit their countries and
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they'll get back on their feet greece ireland portugal italy spain it dominates continue to topple the year and it seems there will be no happily ever after. i see athens. on the other side of the atlantic president obama has warned the us is quickly running out of time to deal with its own financial troubles congress must raise the current fourteen point three trillion dollar debt ceiling one of bombers urging the parties to ignore political differences and avert armageddon economics professor rodrigo tremblingly believes a deal will be struck and the debt limit will once again go up. the united states is not in the same position as and they are a country this is a country karen sees you as internationally and therefore they can afford to print more dollars than the euro can. guarantee but
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that debt level is very high they raise the debt ceiling each year and they have done it before that they will be raised because the president obama has a tradition of caving in to the demands of the republicans he did that he did it twice before so the republicans. expecting that he will do the same it will take the fall a few days or a few hours before the deadline of august second there could be a similar situation as that happened in one thousand nine hundred four when the representative going which closed the government for a few a few days or if you are in the nearly two weeks. held very much to president clinton at that time to be re-elected in one thousand nine hundred six that's what president obama is hoping now that the republicans will be so extremist than they in two thousand and twelve next year he may be re-elected. you with r.t. here in moscow still ahead of the love of labor india's hard work ethic is the
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driving force behind the country's economic success leaving western countries behind. and from a russian orphanage to a golfing prodigy we report on the young man's latest challenge of trying to trace his siblings. so those stories still to come but first rupert murdoch has made a public apology for the phone hacking scandal that he called serious wrongdoing by the news of the world he's rapidly losing allies on both sides of the atlantic with his media empire under pressure from all sides want to discuss this i'm not joined by journalist action returns he's live in london for us action good to see here on our team murdoch has been saying has tried to appease the u.k. public today i can see the houses of parliament behind you what do you make of the political reaction from those in france for so long it's all out war really because the political classes here finally feel freed up for the first time in decades and decades so i don't think appeasing word or particularly work everyone is watching
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for tuesday's committee where rupert murdoch and his son james will appear so it'll be interesting to see that but i think we should remember that the prime minister here and we will probably not today because it's saturday said the truth is we've all been in this together the press politicians and leaders of all parties and yes that includes me very sorry indictment for democracy in this country and coming through there when you're implying that members of parliament won't be frightened of him anymore and of course nor will they be able to rely on him to sway public opinion in their favor so do you think this will have a major impact on british politics in the future. i suppose one could say that it was multinationals who are using murdoch in a way so they're lobbying rupert murdoch gets the big companies big multinationals and so forth that seem to get things done by there are helping m.p.'s behind me perhaps not as bad as in washington but i don't think it's the end of outside influences outside on democratic forces as regards influences on the
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parliamentarians behind me you've made a reference to david cameron well his close links of course have come to light with news international embarrassing or potentially damaging. i think they are potentially damaging more and more news is coming out in the few hours of rupert murdoch's meetings these executives meetings with the prime minister as we all know the prime minister appointed as press secretary the man that is under investigation he was arrested in the past few days they're very sorry sight but then again the opposition were in on it in on it all too as was the previous prime minister it's kind of cesspit of democracy and it's finally on reveling to the british public what their reaction will be is anyone's guess maddox certainly has his enemies and it doesn't apart from what looks like self destruction could actually be a movement trying to manipulate his media and parts downfall. it is interesting that he owned these newspapers and they always say rupert murdoch loves newspapers
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he basically had newspapers so that he could manipulate monopoly concerns over his broadcast interests which actually did make money unlike newspapers newspapers are just a tool as a war and of course he did make enemies enemies during that i mean in italy he's appointed to a more courage to replace his closest person in the news corp board. hinton who left to rebuild a school any differently though he wore the papers bought the media lab or the political party and actually became leader of the country he has lots of enemies out there he probably a lot of. i mean ition to go back at them though thanks to all the muckraking journalists who spent the. world looking at sex scandals really but for him obvious the paper's a great way of forming influencing public opinion as you say the t.v. channels are the ones that make money now if criminal charges are brought against the management then that could have a serious impact on his future t.v. impact on it because the requirement what is to be proper to run these channels
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that would actually change that status of him wouldn't it if indeed he was accountable and had criminal charges brought against him very much so he does have lots of friends one should but looks at some m.p.'s have a believable but he has the right to own any form of media in this country and i know you're about to hopefully we're about a dog of the united states because that's where it gets really interesting we are because the f.b.i. is now investigating allegations into the phone hacking of nine eleven victims now how serious is this this isn't just what's happening in the u.k. now this is what's happening in the u.s. how serious is this development it's very serious indeed the democratic party in congress is a full on party doesn't really have anything any hope left now that president obama has destroyed his reputation warmongering and his sort of reaganites economic policies as he deals with the deficit so there was nothing much to do but they all
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hate one particular influential cable channel fox news and i'm hearing that if if the nine eleven victims have been hacked by subsidiaries of news corps then fox news is finished and finally quick reaction the white house would relish that wouldn't it bearing in mind bearing in mind its relationship with fox news. yeah president obama probably would relish it but how it took it took the most curious cases of hacking phones rather than any kind of regulator e body to be able to get murdoch to finally. finally overthrow him as it were is an amazing story we'll be. looking for the hollywood blockbuster is probably on twentieth century for. good point afshan thanks very much indeed afshin rattansi joining us live in london. despite the scandal in the u.k.
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there remains a strong demand for god to journalism in the united states drawn in by hard hitting so headlines and scarlet scoops readers are still buying it in huge numbers. now reports sex drugs cheating and lies phony political scandal flashing dirty laundry. and crime stories almost beyond human imagination. all this is served on a platter and sold for a couple of quarters by tabloids headless man in topless bar or something to kids moms in the freezer. like i bought it veteran journalist michael musto is one of millions falling for the bait of catchy headlines even though he knows the business inside out in america we don't break the law per se but they do have sleazy tactics i mean they will slant a story they probably make up sources i mean when you read them a source. of the source said well who is it many times they can just make up the
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quote themselves joe smith from queen said blah blah blah a lot of times i feel they're just inventing these quotes to back up the thesis of the story fascination with scandal is almost religiously observed in the u.s. and great britain we are both countries in both media environments where gossip sells and there's a tremendous interest in celebrity both countries are abuzz after rupert murdoch's news of the world newspaper phone hacking shocker broke in london his empire stretches far and wide across the u.s. as well let's not forget he owns the new york post the wall street journal and the daily at a protest outside rupert murdoch's big apple pad protesters demanded an investigation into his publications at home we know what does in england because he was caught and we want congress to investigate what he's doing here in the united states we don't know if newspapers are backing other people in this country yet but i see no
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reason to put it past them so how far from potential public embarrassment do american newspapers stand by the ones that are owned by rupert murdoch without question the new york post. is one of the most hideous deceitful. tools of the criminals that there could be when it comes to getting scandal sold in the u.s. counting on the reader's short attention span is a common publishing trick jennifer aniston and brad pitt have gotten together about forty two times so far this year and i haven't seen in part a graph together since two thousand and six they're able to keep selling and repackaging the same story that isn't even a story no publication would admit to paying for and for me. but that's also often a technicality what a lot of mainstream news publications can get away with doing is even though they won't explicitly give someone money in exchange for an interview someone might set up a terrible organization and then the news will happen to donate twenty thousand dollars to that terrible organization the culture of sensationalism in the press is putting the future of journalism on the line the anglo-american style is it's trashy it's
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ribald and there's just sort of this snickering tone that is very american and you know we're a juvenile society where young society i don't really know what the brits excuses i mean they've been around a long time but hey we blame it on them because we're their children while some will always remain fascinated by tabloids as rags continue to sell others have reached a breaking point and i don't have that great of a sense of what happens in britain but i know it's pretty bad here and there are a lot of people who are really upset about the culture news in america and just how little information so you get out in between all the gossip the press has to be vigilant and in the united states the press has fallen asleep and r.t. new york. special floating cranes are preparing to lift the doomed ship bulgaria which sank in russia's of older river last sunday the search operation for fifteen missing passengers continues in the area and on nearby islands artie's told
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partners on board one of the ships watching the recovery efforts the two enormous cranes behind me have begun the process of lowering two cables which will then be threaded underneath the ship and used to write it is currently leading on its left side divers will then be able to go under to check for any of the remaining fifteen bodies that are yet to be found the shores are also being searched for any of those bodies and they also be able to search for the potential damage caused to the bulgarian to sink they will eventually find that damage as the ship is ready to be raised and they'll have to seal the hole to let all the water in and any other holes and then all the water inside the bulgarian will be able to be pumped out making it's light enough to be raised the divers though have got a difficult task ahead of them with me is under a you are digging he's from the emergencies ministry under a could you just tell us a bit about the conditions that the divers are working in. divers
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are currently working on the river bed but it's really difficult because of crew visibility basically you can't see anything even if it's right in front of you and that's why the divers are preparing to lift the ship up there barely able to see what they're doing obviously this operation now everyone is waiting especially the relatives on the banks people who have yet to hear from those fifteen will be desperate for news of what has happened to their loved ones and increasingly investigators want to know what caused this ship to sink and sink so fast causing so much tragedy. reporter now and if you've missed anything we're covering here on screen you can always head to our web site r t don't call his what else for fun net on the web site of the moment u.s. activist demand an end to torture as it emerges that during the cold war america trained interrogated suv use their brutal methods at home and abroad. and ukrainian man launches on a wild experiment planning to spend over months living with
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costs and r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. question on the dot com. if you want to achieve your dreams you've got to be ready to work for them that's what indian people are doing in their droves and it seems staying at work longer than the western counterparts is paying off. elbowed her way into reveal the reality of life in the new delhi rat race. it's a busy city with busy people india is a rising economic locomotive still what's the driving force behind it success it could very well be that people like. both are co-directors of a small one import company called divine and is indians have developed a strong liking for french and spanish mintage is young men are working overtime to fill their glasses you have to be very flexible with your working hours. interferes
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what we're going to globalization on because of oh you know you're interacting with so many people from abroad especially america or europe so. we can keep expanding is where we can say we only want to go from one to five but people in britain for example can and do say that seven spent years working as a business consultant in the u.k. and he says brits watch that clock closely in britain people leave a five o'clock and they won't stay later because i got a train to catch for many years in britain and you're there is that some people don't work in britain people don't work weekends is changing a little bit now particularly in periods of economic recession. but generally it's a monday to friday as recently as just two years ago india had a six day long week the government has put in strict regulations regarding labor hours but that doesn't stop people from spending more time in the office than
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needed. a more significant difference between the kind of work culture in india and in britain is the pressure of people around to work above and beyond their contracted hours. everyone will do. yes irrespective of really if there's work to be done if there is a small enterprise to run then all state regulations go out of the window if sacrifices equal success then you have to make them i'm working twenty four seventh's. working i work on sunday or saturday or i'm an office working because the order would be processed but these things are being organized so our problem. is nonexistent but what may seem a fine example of did occasion may actually be a drawback in the office environment i think people are expected to do the job or two or three people. even though the contract to those might say one thing which isn't always such a good thing because if you work such long hours it's going to affect your
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performance while europe and the u.s. spend their money on fighting wars and their time on trying to figure out a way to get out of economic slump india is busy getting things done the indian way or garnishes probably the most popular god in the entire hindu pantheon in india he is supposed to bring prosperity and success to those who worship him but the success of indian businessmen should not be attributed to the divine help alone nine to five working hours just don't cut it here in the long hours of hard labor but at the end all of that hard work pays off in. new delhi. to some international news in brief now we're covering for you in our world update today in vienna thousands of mourners have joined the imperial style funeral of the last head of the. people gathered to pay tribute to crown prince. the son of last emperor royals leaders were in attendance and died earlier this month at the age of ninety eight will be buried in the imperial crib.
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despite warnings from china u.s. president barack obama has held a private meeting with the exiled tibetan spiritual leader the dalai lama the chinese government earlier called on the you know. it states to cancel the top saying it would damage relations between the countries in asia expected to discuss the dalai lama's hopes for tibet to be autonomous china has accused him of pushing for full tibet and independence. and is waiting president hugo chavez is to return to cuba for more cancer treatment including chemotherapy has just been given approval from the national assembly for the trip as required by the constitution chavez returned to venezuela after spending nearly a month in cuba where he had achieved from his region and moved his battle with cancer has raised doubts every script has to lead the country but officially he still plans to run for reelection next year. also in a world of faith this hour syrian opposition members been holding meetings in damascus in istanbul to discuss ways of president assad this comes after
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a massive nationwide protest rocked the country on friday leaving at least thirty two people dead hundreds of thousands of anti-government demonstrators poured onto the streets of the capital in other cities before facing a crackdown by security forces the government and national guard the protesters demanding president assad steps down. he's a russian born goal of prodigy hannity's chance in the game after being adopted by american parents but for an economic of lecky his biggest challenge isn't finding form on the fairways but finding the family he left behind back home artie's eagle has the story. he might have a smoother swing but from the outside nicholai looks no different to the pampered junior players in this hyper exclusive moscow golf club but this couldn't be further from the truth nikolai come unless he was an eleven year old often when he was adopted by an american family you can never say that or think his life is easy you know and basically there they make you feel like it's nothing you're nothing to
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me when i came to united states i had a lot of problems emotion that he's an incredible young man he is someone who has taken on many challenges in his life and he's always overcome then came the gulf one day i just saw my desk going in a golf club in the backyard and. i don't remember exactly but i had no idea what it was i just was a piece of metal and i asked him what it was and he told me it was god and then he asked me to he said you want to do want to try and i tried it and i headed straight for my first ball and he said you're playing. despite making headway in sport was one thing nicholai could not get over when he moved to the united states nikolai was separated from his younger sister and brother and lost track of them he rejected several sports scholarship offers at top years colleges to play for the russian national golf team so he could search for his siblings. then this year during a top junior tournament heard news about his sister my whole life. my dad and we
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have paid a lot of money to different companies to try to find her and then i met family out of nowhere and they found there in less than two weeks so to me i never thought that i was ever going to see her again reunited at last nicholai sister and the seer was never adopted she's about to graduate from a school in southern russia. when they heard about my brother and i thought it was a prank my friend played on me i don't remember much of him but we're going to become close again she has no business i'm going to buy her a computer so that we can talk to each other all the time so that we never lose touch again but when you put it all. back in moscow nikolai has won the prestigious faldo series tournament and will compete against europe stop young players later this year but he says now his priority is finding his brother we can only wish
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nicholai the best in his dream to become a professional golfer but what he's had to overcome whatever happens next he is already a winner either overawed now. in moscow. well next we also a british trade union leader what workers should do in the face of the austerity measures and tax hikes imposed upon them that will be just after a couple top stories with me in about three minutes from now stay with us live hang in moscow.
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of the book. download the official placation. pod touch from the. life on the go. video on demand all t.v.'s my old posts and feeds now in the palm of your. question on the dot com. in india. the move to join the hotel rooms. the gateway hotel the grand imperial troy told us to.
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say don't need to go and. read this and the colonel was hoto retreat. could have you with us all to live here moscow top stories this ninety eight european banks have failed stress test based on a worst case economics and the majority of them were in spain approved of tough a sturdy budget and a diverting a full scale financial crisis. you cannot have has made a public apology for phone hacking by the news of the world he's rapidly losing allies on both sides of the atlantic with his media empire trying to stop itself from self destructing. preparation work is underway to lift a russian cruiser from the bottom of the hill permission is aimed at shedding more light on why the vessel sank with the most around one hundred thirty nine years.
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well while governments cut back spending to tackle debts that refused to budge europeans themselves unless convinced that they should pay for the mistakes of banks and politicians next we hear from the u.k. trade union leader who says the public won't take this without a fight a special interview for you next on r.t. . today i'm talking to mark hughes one of the brains behind the. nationwide strike in the u.k. he's head of the public and commercial services union thanks for talking to r.t. today know this is possible to plan to cut public spending in this country just how drastic are these cuts going to be give us an impression of what they might mean for the cuts of the big most people have seen and. are projected to mean half a million jobs lost in the public sector six hundred thousand jobs in the private
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sector as a direct result. in the delivery of welfare cuts in funding of education for young people and also a tax on people's pensions in addition to many of the communities up and down the country libraries close cuts in social services everything that people have taken for granted as. you seem to see these cuts in terms of rights and almost a moral position but isn't there. to be respected for example they didn't see it it looks like they might be able to afford. this is the fifth largest economy in the world and if you look at historically the british economy for fifty consecutive years from one thousand nine hundred. deaths as a proportion of. what it is now. millions of houses schools hospitals are. recognizing actually economically.

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